TraveLog - Ronda

Tired with Sevilla, I decided to go to Ronda, a small town nowadays, but with a very long and interesting history. I used to have many notices of it as it was quite an important center during the Islamic period. And still it has some interesting points dating back from the last centuries of the kingdom of Granada.

The monumental bridge over the abyss, which is the symbol of this city, is in fact a late, 18th-century construction. But there is also a cute and well preserved bridge from Islamic times.



Near this bridge, the unique entrance to the medieval town, there is also a well preserved hammam.



Another quite interesting spot is so called Casa del Rey Moro, a mysterious subterranean construction which popular imagination believed to be a kind of secret palace.



In fact its function used to be quite utilitarian. The stairs and corridors lead to the bottom of the abyss among the rocks, filled with crystal clear water.



But of course the Moorish kings lived much better than this. In Ronda there is also a small residence of the same Nasride type which can be seen, in much larger scale, in Granada. It's called Casa del Gigante, because of an ancient idol, probably some Fenician divinity, which was found there.